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The one thing liberal news people never figure out is who are the members of the potential audience. They look at the numbers of citizens and see that about 1/3 are liberal voters and 1/3 are conservative voters and 1/3 are in the middle. They understand that those in the middle don't pay much attention to polictical shows. And they understand that Fox has gotten a lot of the right. They conclude that there is a big untapped audience on the left. There job is to get them to tune in. Ain't never going to happen.

The truth is the that 1/3 of the public that votes the straight Democratic ticket for the most part are not interested in politics or political shows at all. The typical Democratic voter works at the mill or the store, and votes the way the union steward or precinct boss tells him or her to vote. A small minority of Democrats are wealthy and educated. It is the poorly educated and disinterested individuals who make up the democratic core. The typical democratic voter pays zero attention to issues or personalities. They don't know the name of any politicians. It is like Alan Jackson admits. He doesn't know the differnece between Iran and Iraq. They think daschle blocking the stimulus package is what a crooked Jockey does down the stretch at the Kentucky Derby.

The majority of Democratic voters are not ever going to tune in to a political show. That leaves the potential audience for such shows as about 40 percent of the voters and 33 of the 40 percent are conservative.

Thus this move to put on CROSS FIRE, guys who can really win it for the left in an attempt to draw the left to view it, are doomed. The vast majority of left voters down't watch political TV or hear talk radio.

If you want to reach Democrat voters put on the WWF.

And you thought Ted Turner was clueless. CNN is clueless and getting more so.